Lang Moore and David Smith delivered a multimedia presentation on Learning
About Online Learning: How Do Students Use Interactive Web-Based Materials-- based in part on a research study by Jack Bookman and David Malone,
Saturday, November 18. Click here
to go to a resource page from which you can download the PowerPoint slides,
the video clips used in the presentation, the paper to appear in the Proceedings,
and a preprint of the Bookman-Malone paper.

Lang Moore was part of a panel discussing Using Technology Beyond Calculus:
Looking Beyond Computation, Friday, November 17.

CCP Users Workshop
A workshop for prospective users was held at Duke University, July 19 through
22. We discussed the design of the library and the use of the materials in
undergraduate courses ranging from precalculus to engineering mathematics.
The activities included an introduction to Maple and guided, hands-on
experience in using the the materials.

Population Growth Models,
a long module including exponential, superexponential, and logistic growth.
Populations studied include the human population of the world and the lobster
population off the Maine coast.

Distributions of Data,
an introduction to continuous data distributions with emphasis on the normal
distribution

PostCALC Workshop
A workshop for high school teachers interested in Post CALC materials was
held at Duke University, July 12-14. A small but lively group of teachers
participated -- most were from the local area, but one came from New Mexico.
Workshop activities included

working through the Maple tutorial and other parts of the modular
materials;

Project CALC in the NewsThe November 10, 2000, issue of The
Chronicle of Higher Education included this picture of Prof.
Betty Mayfield working with her students at Hood
College on a Project CALC activity. The article was about the future of
women's colleges, not about mathematics or Project CALC. If you subscribe
to the Chronicle and want to find the article in the archives (sans
picture), click here.
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Textbook, Calculus: Modeling and Application:
The publisher of the first edition, Houghton Mifflin (HM), has decided not
to publish a second edition and has returned all rights for subsequent editions
to the authors. The first edition of the single variable text (Chs. 1-11)
and the final preliminary edition of the multivariable text (Chs. 12-16) will
continue to be sold by HM as long as there are books in the warehouse. We
estimate that, at current rates of sales, these books will be available for
another three to four years. Since HM is not marketing the work, there is
no reason to think that sales will go up dramatically. See the Project CALC
materials page for details of ISBN
numbers and ordering information.
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Lab manuals: The HM decision announced in the
preceding paragraph applies to lab manuals as well. Existing stock for each
of the computer and calculator versions (except HP-48, which was custom published)
should last at least as long as the textbook stocks. We are in the process
of publishing "second edition" versions of the labs as CCP
modules in our Differential Calculus,
Integral Calculus, and Multivariable
Calculus areas. We expect these online lab manuals to be completed over
the next few months and to replace print versions anywhere that students have
ready access to a computer algebra system.
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Future publication plans: As the preceding paragraph
indicates, the future publication of lab manuals will be in modular form on
the Web. No decision has been made about the future of the textbook, but we
are considering the possibility of modular Web publication for it as well.
We are eager to have feedback, especially from current and past users, about
the feasibility and desirability of a textbook being provided entirely on
the Web, perhaps with licensing for local downloading and printing. Contact
the authors.
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Special needs for materials: Please let us know
if you have a need for Project CALC materials that is not being met. For example,
if supplies of calculator-based lab manuals are exhausted, we can provide
those as PDF files on the Web. We (and our lab manual co-authors) have the
electronic files from which the manuals were produced, and we can use them
as we wish once HM's warehouse stock is sold. Contact the
authors.
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